Posted on 01/04/2018 3:00:57 AM PST by Syncro
3km ESE of Berkeley, CA
2018-01-04 10:39:37 (UTC)
It’s been a long time since a large shaker in California. I lived a half mile from the epicenter of the Northridge quake back in’94, I never thought the earth could shake like that. At some point it’s gonna get active again. Get ready.
My son and his wife were both woken up by it.
I felt it in Henderson, NV, but I’m very sensitive to quakes.
The Northridge Quake flattened the apartment complex we had moved out of not three months before. The entire complex was across the street from CSUN where the epicenter was. Pancaked the area.
Heating with fire in an earthquake zone seems dangerous to this east coaster. Anyway, isn’t that illegal in California yet? Stay safe.
Live in Walnut Creek, maybe 10 miles east of the epicenter, and it did wake us up. Felt a jolt or two, then some minor rolling. The extent of the damage was a baseball that was sitting in a holder fell on the ground.
When I heard that it hit in Berkeley, my first thought was whether Barbara Lee or one of the other “esteemed” members of the Congressional Black Caucus will get up on the House floor today and blame it on President Trump. He probably used the same space weapon that W used to cause Katrina to wipe out the A-A sections of New Orleans years ago.
It's only a matter of time.
“About a 3 ticket ride...”
Yeah. Woke me up, but definitely nowhere near an “E Ticket” event; MAYBE a B.
I barely remember those old days at Disneyland where you could park your car and get into the park quite inexpensively. You didn’t really pay until you wanted to go on a ride, and then you had to buy a ticket book. Walt had it set up that the rides didn’t cost you different NUMBERS of tickets; they cost you different LETTERS. So you had your no-thrill “A Ticket” rides that the little toddlers could enjoy, all the way up to the Matterhorn roller coaster, which cost you the famed “E Ticket.”
This precipitated an interesting social interaction, because you couldn’t buy a ticket book that had, say, all E Tickets in it, so you’d see people trading partly-used ticket books. There’d be a family with little kids dickering with a group of teenagers; offering them D and E tickets in exchange for A and B tickets. Sad those days have gone; Disneyland was such a unique and magical place that going to “the Park,” as they called it, was worth the few bucks entry fee even if you never got on a ride.
That'll be the day I go back to Annandale
DH went right back to sleep, I was up for an hour and a half, finally slept but got up at 0500, so, yeah, not a lot of rest last night.
Agree. There have been a lot of small quakes in the last few days here in the SF Bay Area, from San Jose up to Berkeley. Was discussing this with wife yesterday, that a bunch of small ones supposedly prevent the big ones. Well, I was wrong. There was a good sized quake in San Jose a couple days ago, then one in San Jose a few hours before the Berkeley quake this morning. Seems that stress is still built up along the Hayward fault that runs alongside the San Andreas fault. We're overdue for a huge quake on the Hayward fault, last big one around the 1860s that killed people in the east bay.
It's only a matter of time.
Sorry, won't happen. Big faults here like San Andreas are slip zones, running north/south. When the big ones happen, the ocean plate moves one way, the land mass the other way against each other, but not apart.
Early this morning when the quake hit, we were wakened and then felt severe shaking moving the house sideways north and south for a few seconds. Very short duration. Unlike the 1989 quake that shook for much longer that ended up collapsing structures. A little longer and this quake today could have done similar damage. But the land won't collapse into the sea (maybe parts of Daly City and Pacifica where that happens at seaside cliff areas).
Yes, and the parking area was a few feet from the entrance under the train trestle into Main Street of Disneyland. Now it seems like a mile away. We would stay at the tiny motels across the street like "Inn of Tomorrow" which cost maybe $20 a night, and jaywalk across the street to the entrance. Lots of empty orchards and bare land around. Now it's crazy crowded in the area.
Disney has so influenced the City of Anaheim that when they renewed the old city downtown they incorporated Disney-originated design motifs.
Anaheim should put signs at the city limits:
“Welcome to Anaheim, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney Corporation”
Under normal circumstances that may be true.
However, when dealing with NATURE and it UNPREDICTABILITY anything is possible.. anything.
As already communicated.. "NEVER underestimate the POWER of the FORCE"
Well, I've been through a lot of quakes here in the SF area, and I don't see a big land mass sinking, ever. I'd sooner believe in Yellowstone erupting and destroying a third of the country, or the Cascadia fault destroying the northwest with a tsunami, or the Missippi River are being destroyed by a huge quake - any of those would occur first. Quakes here cause infrastructure damage due to shaking, or fire damage. I remember a quake in the 1950s knocking down the whole front facade of a home into the street, two blocks from my house.
That's what smaller quakes do, limited damage. 1989 quake was very severe, glass panels and brickwork falling into the streets downtown where I worked, then driving through the Marina district where most chimneys were down and seeing the fires from burning collapsed buildings. A big one on the Hayward fault will cause the same type of damage.
I just worked firewood for an hour in 21 degrees. Worked up a good sweat.
Because of liquefaction a 4.5 will feel much stronger, the Bay area is built on saturated marine clay that has the physical properties of jello
I’ve read alot of comments like yours saying it was harder than reported. The USGS does have a track record of not reporting or downrating earthquakes.
I thought 4.5 earthquakes in California were like Category 1 hurricanes in Florida - not newsworthy and no big deal,unless you’re a tourist.
;-)
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